As I have done in the past, what I am proposing is to organize a RFF postcard project.

Which means that I will collect peoples' snail mail addresses then distribute those addresses to all of us and we each then mail every one else a postcard. I will not use those addresses for anything other than this project and will not share them with anyone other than those of us who are in the project.

More specifically, that means that we each will make x number of postcards with the same photo on it to send out to all the other folks participating. Each of us will choose our own photo to make into a postcard and there are no restrictions about subject matter or gear used. Nudity may be an exception to that; I don't find it an issue but the various postal services may.

Some house keeping types of concerns that we need to figure out:

In the previous two projects we had an excellent turn out and I see no reason why that won't continue. The first one had, I think, 36 players and the second was 58 or so. Which does lead to this:
At some number this will become a chore rather than a fun thing to do.

And I know that the cost of this is a concern for some of us.
Both part one and part two cost me about the same $, even with the increase of participants. I printed my own cards for the first one and had Moo print may cards for the second one. I expect to use Moo again this time.

Last time, I limited the numbers only by the cut off date and that worked out fairly well. If this round proves to be more popular there may be many more folks who want to play. I truly do not want to exclude any one but we do need to keep this fun. So,we need some options to deal with that, if necessary :

I see a couple of choices: One is to simply limit the number of people to some arbitrary number--this is NOT what I prefer but it might be necessary.

Another would be for me to organize two lists of people and then each of you could opt for one or both lists as your resources dictate. If that is what we do, I will do my best so that each list is as balanced between local and international (to the senders) addresses as I can.

Any ideas about how to deal with this are very appreciated, folks!

I have created an email address especially for this project so I can keep everyones' emails in one place and hopefully avoid the hiccups with missed addresses like I had last time. Once we get things sorted/settled that email address will be how I generate the mailing list.

I am figuring to collect addresses from once we settle the above concerns until 1 January 2013, then send the list out Friday or Saturday that week. Then we each should plan on mailing starting 2 February. This should give us all enough time to get through the holiday season and the associated obligations before we have to deal with the project.

Let the discussions begin!

Rob

EDIT: SEE POST #46 IN THIS THREAD TO GET THE EMAIL ADDRESS TO PARTICIPATE, PLEASE!

I'm in for round 3. I'm good for as many as you and the group decide on. I also may want to send 2 to reach participant since I can't decide between 2 photo's. I've ordered both from Moo and will decide once they arrive. Thank you again Rob for organizing this.

I'll be happy to participate again. In the other thread there was this suggestion of a 'theme' to the photos, like 'My town'. It'd would be an interesting new twist to the project which I'd like. It's also in the spirit of "postcards" I'd think. But any way, sign me up for round three. I don't mind the numbers.

Hi Rob,
I'd love to join in again. I like someone above's suggestion for a theme, and Kent's idea for letting any number of people join in, with some sort of random list of say 50 names given to each participant.
Cheers,
Jamie

I'm in again. And my offer stands to create an Address-Mixer-Script (see this post), if the number goes too high. It would also be not a problem to mix the addresses under certain aspect, like max number of foreign addresses for everyone (so you don't get all postcards from your neighborhood...).

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